All posts by Asa Reed

Asa is a cinematography major at Emerson College in Boston, but is originally from Windham, ME. In addition to being a pop punk and hardcore enthusiast, he rides and films BMX, takes artsy vintage photography, and plays with really expensive film equipment. He's responsible for some of the graphics on The Daily Slice, occasionally acts as Tori's cameraman, and writes reviews of the best up-and-coming pop punk and hardcore acts in the scene today. If you're a band/musician in the Boston, MA or Portland, ME areas looking to shoot an inexpensive music video, shoot Asa an email!

State Champs took the main stage for the first time at the 2016 Vans Warped Tour in Mansfield, MA. This band has exponentially grown over the course of their 3 years together and it’s crazy to have seen them play the Breakthrough stage only 2 years ago. Check out the photos below!

“I’ve never had faith in a Pentimento record like I have in this one.” – Mike Hansen

We had the opportunity to chat with Mike Hansen, the drummer of Pentimento, in their van at the Middle East, in Cambridge on the Boston date of their first headliner tour with Better Off and A Will Away. We talk about pizza, tour, and their new full-length album. Check it out below!

The Daily Slice: What’s your name, what do you do in the band, and where’s the best place to get pizza in your hometown?

Mike Hansen: My name’s Mike, I play drums in Pentimento and the best place to get pizza in my hometown is a little shop in the neighborhood I grew up in called Metro Pizza. It does have the best pizza on the planet. I’ve been some places, not everywhere, but a lot of places and I’ve tried pizza in each of those places at some point and it doesn’t get any better than Metro Pizza. So there it is.

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